Gordon Klingenschmitt http://www.pfaw.org/
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:04:38 -0400Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:06:53 -0400Paranoia-Rama: Obama's Ban On Dogs, Gays Cause Earthquakes And 'Socialist' Medicare Destroyed Americahttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-obamas-ban-dogs-gays-cause-earthquakes-and-socialist-medicare-destroyed-americ
<p>This week, Americans marked the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the death of freedom and the introduction of communism with the 1965 legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid. And as if things weren&rsquo;t already bad enough for America, now we are witnessing a looming ban on dogs and the threat of gay-marriage-induced earthquakes.</p>
<p><strong>5) Obama&rsquo;s Islamist Dog Ban</strong></p>
<p>Talk radio conspiracy theorist Michael Savage thinks that President Obama has a lot in store for the last year and a half of his presidency, such as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michael-savage-wonders-if-obama-will-introduce-guillotines-execute-critics">murdering his critics</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michael-savage-obama-may-seek-third-term-nullifying-election">seeking a third term</a> and &ldquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michael-savage-obama-liberal-hell-bent-destroying-america">destroying us entirely</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>However, no scheme is as serious as the one Savage exposed on his Monday show, when he suggested that Obama&rsquo;s policies <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/savage-obama-paving-way-ban-dogs-acting-hitler-gay-rights">may lead to a ban on dogs</a>.</p>
<p>Accusing the president of &ldquo;bringing in 100,000&rdquo; Muslims to the U.S. every month, Savage warned that the Islamists who will soon run the country may &ldquo;ban dogs.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, a fake conservative news site has already <a href="http://m.snopes.com/dearborn-alcohol-ban/">sparked outrage</a> after publishing a story alleging that Dearborn, Michigan, banned alcohol as part of an effort &ldquo;to turn Dearborn into an Islamic State.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>4) Confederate Flag Shielding Planned Parenthood Phony Scandal</strong></p>
<p>Sarah Palin appeared on &ldquo;The O&rsquo;Reilly Factor&rdquo; this week to promote the myths that Planned Parenthood is<a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/">profiting off organ harvesting</a> and <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/media/evidencecheck/provider-location.html">targeting minority women to have abortions</a>, alleging that people who care about the Confederate flag on public land don&rsquo;t care that the women&rsquo;s health organization is using black leaders like President Obama to &ldquo;deceive&rdquo; women into believing that they should have abortions.</p>
<p>The former Republican vice presidential candidate <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/07/29/on-the-oreilly-factor-sarah-palin-accuses-plann/204672">offered up</a> this characteristically lucid explanation: &ldquo;This is kind of symbolic of our political correctness absurdity and the absurdity of some persons&rsquo; priorities when they are concerned more about a symbol that had representative the negative many years ago compared to today. Thousands and thousands of babies, obviously, we&rsquo;ve seen in the news over and over with Planned Parenthood, being butchered and having their baby parts sold, people in some parts are paying a whole lot more attention to the flag controversy than they are about what Planned Parenthood their barbaric practices are.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>3) Gay Pride Marches Cause Earthquakes </strong></p>
<p>Forget what you learned in science class! Thanks to John McTernan of USA Prophecy, we now know the <em>true </em>sources of earthquakes and hurricanes.</p>
<p>&ldquo;There has been tremendous disasters hitting America at the very same time that America is turning from God,&rdquo; McTernan explained. &ldquo;On gay pride day, there have been huge earthquakes, I&rsquo;m talking about on the very day; Supreme Court decisions, pro-abortion, and that hurricanes slamming in, droughts and things like that. And I believe it&rsquo;s God warning America to stop the course, actually repent and it will be the church to do this.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Sadly, McTernan told &ldquo;Pray In Jesus Name&rdquo; host Gordon Klingenschmitt that the U.S. has &ldquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/john-mcternan-gay-pride-events-cause-earthquakes-abortion-causes-hurricanes"> crossed the line of no return with legalizing homosexual marriage </a> ,&rdquo; something he said has not been done since &ldquo;the time of Noah.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s not too much time left for America,&rdquo; he said, adding that Christians will now face persecution by liberals who &ldquo;hate us as much as the Nazis hated the Jews and they&rsquo;re acting on it now&rdquo; and &ldquo;want to destroy us.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>2) Gays Cause Child Abuse</strong></p>
<p>Klingenschmitt, who also serves as a Colorado Republican state representative, not only wants his viewers to know that gay pride demonstrations cause earthquakes, but also that gay people are bent on sexually abusing children.</p>
<p>Addressing the Boy Scouts of America&rsquo;s recent decision to end its ban on gay members over the age of 18 (the group already lifted its prohibition on gay minors), Klingenschmitt claimed that parents must get their kids out of the BSA because <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-remove-your-sons-boy-scouts-they-are-abused-gay-child-molesters"> openly gay scoutmasters will molest their children on camping trips </a> .</p>
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<p>Apparently, his remarks aren&rsquo;t sitting well with fellow members of the Colorado state House, with even a Republican legislative leader <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-gets-himself-trouble-yet-again-over-anti-gay-remarks">denouncing</a> his &ldquo;hurtful&rdquo; and &ldquo;inflammatory rhetoric.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>1) </strong> <strong>Happy 50<sup>th</sup> Birthday, Medicare!</strong></p>
<p>As Medicare <a href="http://blog.pfaw.org/content/jeb-bush-thinks-50-years-medicare-long-enough">turns 50</a> this week, the program enjoys widespread popularity, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/11/18/370804/poll-tea-party-voters-oppose-cuts-to-medicare-social-security/"> even among members of the Tea Party </a> .</p>
<p>But it almost wasn&rsquo;t so. Back in the 1960s, Medicare proposals came under fierce attacks from conservatives, <a href="http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/09/ronald-reagan-on-medicare-circa-1961-prescient-rhetoric-or-familiar-alarmist-claptrap-.html"> including future President Ronald Reagan </a> , who said that the program would lead to the end of freedom as a tyrannical, socialist government dominated the country. Sound familiar?</p>
<p>Just listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs">Reagan&rsquo;s 1961 remarks</a>, complete with fake quotes and baseless speculation about &ldquo;socialized medicine,&rdquo; to see how the Right has stuck to a familiar playbook even after all these years:</p>
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Brian TashmanAnti-ChoiceAnti-GayC4Equality For AllGordon Klingenschmitt Government By the PeopleJohn McTernanMarriage EqualityMarriage EqualitymedicareMichael Savage Ronald ReaganSarah Palin 60081Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:04:38 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt John McTernan: Gay Pride Events Cause Earthquakes, Abortion Causes Hurricaneshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/john-mcternan-gay-pride-events-cause-earthquakes-abortion-causes-hurricanes
<p>On his "Pray In Jesus Name" program <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlq2u1dKS0">today</a>, Gordon Klingenschmitt interviewed Bible prophecy "expert" <a href="http://usaprophecy.com/about-john-mcternan/">John McTernan</a>, who warned that with the legalization of gay marriage nationwide, we have "crossed that line now where there's not too much time left for America," before declaring that gay rights activists hate Christians "as much as the Nazis hated the Jews."</p>
<p>McTernan asserted that "there have been tremendous disasters hitting America at the very same time as America is turning from God," saying that earthquakes have stuck this nation in response to gay pride parades and that&nbsp; hurricanes have hit America because of legal abortion, all of which are "God warning America to repent."</p>
<p>Unfortunately, nobody other than McTernan seems to understand this obvious connection and so "we're at the point now where we have crossed the line of no return" and God's judgment is imminent.</p>
<p>When Klingenschmitt asked if there was anything that Christians could do to turn things around, McTernan said that "we must understand that the people that are in power now, I call them them hard-left reprobates, they hate us."</p>
<p>"They hate us because they hate God and we represent God," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSXqMayWMuM">he said</a>. "They hate us as much as the Nazis hated the Jews and they're acting on it now. This is not live and let live, Chaplain, they want to destroy us."</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt John McTernanMarriage EqualityC3Fighting the Right60001Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:31:00 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Gordon Klingenschmitt Gets Himself Into Trouble Yet Again Over Anti-Gay Remarkshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-gets-himself-trouble-yet-again-over-anti-gay-remarks
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<p>Earlier this year, Colorado Republican state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt set off a controversy in his home state when <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-brutal-attack-upon-pregnant-woman-curse-god-upon-america">he declared</a> on his "Pray In Jesus Name" program that a brutal attack on a pregnant woman was the result of "the curse of God upon America" for the sin of legal abortion. His fellow legislators were quick to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-sparks-outrage-after-linking-god-attack-pregnant-woman">denounce his remarks</a> and Klingenschmitt was even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-being-stripped-committee-assignment-klingenschmitt-suspends-his-pray-jesus-name-show">stripped of a committee assignment</a>, prompting him to eventually <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-apologizes-everything-i-did-about-report-was-wrong">apologize</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-being-stripped-committee-assignment-klingenschmitt-suspends-his-pray-jesus-name-show">suspend production</a> of his television program until the end of the legislative session.</p>
<p>The session ended back in May and Klingenschmitt has been posting daily programs <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-pot-legalization-do-you-really-want-be-devoured-devil">ever since</a>, including one earlier this week in which <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-remove-your-sons-boy-scouts-they-are-abused-gay-child-molesters">he warned</a> parents to remove their sons from the Boy Scouts now that the organization has lifted its ban on gay scout leaders.</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt warned that allowing gay scout leaders "will lead to child abuse" and declared that these gay men, who he claimed would sexually assault children, would be better off being drowned in the sea:</p>
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<p>Unsurprisingly, Klingenschmitt's latest comments have set off another round of controversy in Colorado, forcing the state Republican Party to <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28556598/gop-condemn-klingenschmitts-comments-about-gay-boy-scout">distance itself from him</a> once again:</p>
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<p>On Wednesday, the Colorado Republican Party issued a statement addressing Klingenschmitt's remarks.</p>
<p>"We strongly condemn Gordon Klingenschmitt's highly offensive comments. As we've said in the past, Gordon does not speak on behalf of the Party, nor do his words reflect our Party's values," the statement said.</p>
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<p>Klingenschmitt's remarks are <a href="http://gazette.com/gay-boy-scout-leaders-statement-has-klingenschmitt-under-fire-again/article/1556478">being denounced</a> by people on all sides of the political spectrum and, predictably, Klingenschmitt is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/profile-right-wing-persecution-gordon-klingenschmitt-story">once</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-plays-victim-while-actual-victim-rejects-his-donation">again</a> playing the victim:</p>
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<p>Gay members of Colorado Statehouse, who work with Klingenschmitt in Denver when session is in, called for leaders of the Republican caucus to denounce the "hate speech."</p>
<p>"While I personally get along very well with him, when he makes statements like this, I wonder which Gordon Klingenschmitt I'm talking to: the nice guy who is very friendly to me and sits next to me in committee or the guy who makes incendiary statements about drowning good honorable people like me who are gay," Rep. Paul Rosenthal, D-Denver said.</p>
<p>Assistant Minority Leader Polly Lawrence, R-Roxborough Park, reiterated that Klingenschmitt does not speak for House Republicans.</p>
<p>"Rep. Klingenschmitt's inflammatory rhetoric was once again hurtful and does not represent the views of our caucus," she said in a statement that mirrors what leadership's position has been on Klingenschmitt from before he took his seat in the House chamber.</p>
<p>The executive director of One Colorado, Dave Montez, called the lawmaker's comments reprehensible.</p>
<p>"After making numerous comments over the past year attacking lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families, Representative Klingenschmitt just can't seem to get enough," Montez said in a statement. "Gay adults are involved in scouting for the same reasons everyone else is; to serve youth, and to help them grow into good, strong citizens. These comments are reprehensible and he should be ashamed of himself for making them."</p>
<p>In a text message to The Gazette, Klingenschmitt accused others of misquoting him.</p>
<p>To a large extent, those outraged by his comments have focused on the Bible quote and accuse Klingenschmitt of calling for violence against gay men by using the quote.</p>
<p>"Of course the gay groups want me to stop quoting the Bible in church," Klingenschmitt said in his text message. "I will not apologize for quoting Jesus' words from the pulpit. If they are easily offended, they should take it up with Jesus, not with me."</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right59976Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:20:28 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Schlafly: GOP Hopefuls Must Vow To Defy Gay Marriage Ruling Until We 'Decide Whether We Want To Overturn It'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-gop-hopefuls-must-vow-defy-gay-marriage-ruling-until-we-decide-whether-we-want-over
<p>In an interview with far-right pastor and Colorado state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIt3A7Mx5M">today</a>, Phyllis Schlafly declared that the Supreme Court&rsquo;s recent marriage equality ruling should simply be ignored while "we the people" decide if we want to overturn it.</p>
<p>"There's nothing in the Constitution about homosexual marriage," Schlafly said. "The judges made it up and some people think that because they did and the Supreme Court has spoken, therefore we have to accept it. We don't."</p>
<p>Likening the ruling to the Dred Scott decision, Schlafly said that "we don't have to obey it just because a few judges said so," before declaring that GOP presidential hopefuls must declare that they will flout the decision, something several <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-congress-could-pass-creative-law-undo-marriage-equality-decision">candidates</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-urges-governors-defy-supreme-court-marriage-ruling-says-marriage-equality-violates-">have</a> <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/ted-cruz-gay-marriage-ruling-reaction-npr-interview-119559.html">already</a> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/santorum-supreme-court-doesnt-get-final-say-on-gay-marriage/">done</a>.</p>
<p>"We just don't believe in accepting what some judge says is the new law," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenLNv4wcU">she said</a>. "The Constitution starts with 'we the people,' and so what we need to do is say just because the Supreme Court has handed down a decision, we'll re-evaluate it and we'll decide whether we want to overturn it or not."</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt Marriage EqualityPhyllis SchlaflyC3Eagle Forum Fighting the Right59891Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:49:21 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt: Remove Your Sons From The Boy Scouts Before They Are Abused By Gay Child Molestershttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-remove-your-sons-boy-scouts-they-are-abused-gay-child-molesters
<p>Today, the Boy Scouts National Executive Board is <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/boy-scouts-expected-lift-ban-gay-adult-leaders-110725132.html">expected to lift</a> the organization's ban on gay scout leaders and Colorado state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt is not happy about it, warning parents on his "Pray In Jesus Name" program <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10h1DhQv6Sc">today</a> to remove their sons from the organization before they are molested.</p>
<p>"If your boy is in one of those organizations, you need to get the out of there," Klingenschmitt said, "because what they're going to do is promote homosexual men to mentoring and camping with your boys in the woods and it will lead to child abuse."</p>
<p>He went on to <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18:6">cite Matthew 18:6</a> to declared that it would be better for these gay child molesters to be tossed into the sea and drowned than to be allowed to "cause a child to sin," praying that God will "rescue the Boy Scouts organization from this political correctness that has openly forced men who are guilty of all kinds, who are openly admitting that they are engaged in all kinds of sodomy."</p>
<p>The Boy Scouts are "thumbing their nose at God," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wbHKBOKAU">Klingenschmitt warned</a>, as he begged God's forgiveness because the organization is opening the door to "the abusers and the molesters who will take advantage of this and will cause harm to innocent children."</p>
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Kyle MantylaBoy ScoutsColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right59781Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:13:53 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Huckabee: Christians Must Be 'Willing To Suffer' For Disobeying Gay Marriage Rulinghttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-christians-must-be-willing-suffer-disobeying-gay-marriage-ruling
<p>Anti-gay demon hunter and Colorado Republican state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-scotus-gay-marriage-ruling-proves-man-dog-warning-was-accurate">was</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-christians-should-pull-their-kids-out-public-schools-because-gay-marriage-ruling">on hand</a> at the Western Conservative Summit last month on the day that the Supreme Court struck down state bans on gay marriage and he had an opportunity <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9YB4tdWkY">to ask</a> Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee about what Christians should expect as they carry out civil disobedience in response to the ruling.</p>
<p>Huckabee responded that, just like Martin Luther King, Jr., anti-gay Christians must refuse to obey the court's "unlawful" ruling and be willing to suffer as a result.</p>
<p>"A law that is unjust is no law at all," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJU-HFupDF8">Huckabee said</a>, noting that King was "willing to suffer for his decisions and I think that is what we have to accept is that we would be willing to follow our conscience."</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt Marriage EqualityMike Huckabee C3Fighting the Right59101Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:42:48 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Perkins: Christians Should Pull Their Kids Out Of Public Schools Because Of Gay Marriage Rulinghttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-christians-should-pull-their-kids-out-public-schools-because-gay-marriage-ruling
<p>Colorado state legislator (and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-dr-chaps-gordon-klingenschmitt-colorados-new-anti-gay-demon-hunting-state-legislator">anti-gay demon-hunting exorcist</a>) Gordon Klingenschmitt attended the <a href="http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/western-conservative-summit/">Western Conservative Summit</a> in Denver last month, where he interviewed Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council about the Supreme Court decision striking down state bans on gay marriage.</p>
<p>Perkins told Klingenschmitt that Christians should now pull their children out of public schools in the wake of the decision, before their children wind up being indoctrinated "into immoral sexuality."</p>
<p>"With this decision," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4cvEs7XF5s">Perkins said</a>, "this will be used as a club to force conformance across the spectrum. I think we're now at a point where parents who are given the authority and responsibility by God to educate their children .... now, I think we're at a point where parents have to seriously consider removing their children from government schools that are going to be teaching and indoctrinating their children into immoral sexuality and this redefinition of marriage."</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt Marriage EqualityTony Perkins C3Family Research CouncilFighting the Right59081Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:50:29 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Santorum: SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Proves 'Man On Dog' Warning Was Accuratehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-scotus-gay-marriage-ruling-proves-man-dog-warning-was-accurate
<p>Back in 2003, not long before the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing sodomy in 13 states in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas">Lawrence v. Texas</a> decision, then-Sen. Rick Santorum <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-04-23-santorum-excerpt_x.htm">made his infamous statement</a> that if the court struck down such laws, it would ultimately destroy marriage and the family because then "you have the right to anything," including pedophilia and "man on dog" relationships:</p>
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<p>If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does ... [I]t destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family ... In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.</p>
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<p>On the day that the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide last month, Santorum was speaking at the <a href="http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/western-conservative-summit/">Western Conservative Summit</a> in Colorado, where he held a press conference to provide his thoughts on the ruling. State Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt was on hand for the Q&A and today posted footage of it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teWx1-0OpLM">on his "Pray In Jesus Name" program</a>.</p>
<p>The very first question Santorum received linked the gay marriage decision back to his infamous "man on dog" comment, which prompted Santorum to declare that exactly what he had predicted has now come true.</p>
<p>"What I say is if you have the right to consensual sexual activity," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZERpbx2vwc">he said</a>, "then it opens the door to a variety of different things. And this ruling did it. This ruling followed up with what I said would happen if the Supreme Court ruled the way it did and the Supreme Court has followed their line of reasoning that I identified very early on that if consensual sexual activity is a constitutional right, then we have to, it leads logically, as you saw in the court's opinion, that all things, that all the rights come with that."</p>
<p>When he was asked if the Supreme Court's decision now opened the door to polygamy, Santorum said that he couldn't see any legal basis for banning it because the court "has certainly opened the door for a variety of other things that are going to happen."</p>
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<ul> <li> NBC has <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/nbc-cuts-business-ties-donald-trump-over-immigration-remarks-n383856">cut ties</a> with Donald Trump over his recent statement that immigrants from Mexico are drug runners, criminals, and rapists.</li> <p> <li> Franklin Graham is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/953210028068512">furious</a> that the White House was lit up in rainbow colors following the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage: "This is outrageous&mdash;a real slap in the face to the millions of Americans who do not support same-sex marriage and whose voice is being ignored."</li> <p> <li> Gordon Klingenschmitt "<a href="http://www.coloradoindependent.com/154193/rep-klingenschmitt-on-sodomy-jesus-and-same-sex-marriage">congratulates</a>" the gay community on the Supreme Court win: "Let me offer the gay community my sincere congratulations. They fought hard on this issue for decades. And they won. So for the time being, they may feel great political joy. Under American law they can now marry. But under God&rsquo;s law, this will always be a sin."</li> <p> <li> One News Now needs your help <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/church/2015/06/29/franklin-graham-blasts-obama-for-gay-marriage-ruling">deciding</a> "what event most reflects America's monumental shift away from God's moral code?"</li> <p> <li> Finally, Theodore Shoebat <a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/06/26/dont-ban-the-confederate-flag-instead-ban-the-blasphemous-and-demonic-homosexual-flag/">calls</a> for the rainbow "fag flag" to be burned: "I say keep the Confederate flag and strip every single one of these repulsive, diabolical little flags. Shred them to pieces, burn them, take them down and rip them up. Do whatever is necessary to destroy these idols. All of those in the South, who want to see the Confederate flag remain hoisted and presented, should, in multitudes, burn these horrid sodomite flags, to shake up the government and let them know: we know why you are doing this, you have an agenda, and that is to strip away traditional Southern culture and replace it with the modernist antichrist ideology."</li></ul>Kyle MantylaDonald TrumpFranklin Graham Gordon Klingenschmitt LeftoversTheodore Shoebat58311Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:30:14 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt E.W Jackson: Charleston Church Shooter Was A Left Wing Socialisthttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-charleston-church-shooter-was-left-wing-socialist
<p>Anti-gay Religious Right activist and Virginia GOP politician E.W. Jackson stopped by Colorado Republican state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt's "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8U43HW_RS4">program </a>recently to discuss his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ew-jackson-charleston-shooting-result-anti-christian-climate-created-gays-obama">theory</a> that the murder of nine black churchgoers by a white supremacist gunman in South Carolina was not primarily a racist hate crime but was rather an attack on Christianity</p>
<p>While acknowledging that the shooter "was motivated by race," Jackson was careful to point out that the fact that the attack took place in a church means that "this is clearly another attack on Christians and Christianity."</p>
<p>"There's increasing hostility against Christians because of the biblical positions that we're taking in this sort of post-Christian world that we're starting to live in and we're starting to experience in our country," Jackson said.</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt then added that the shooter, Dylann Roof, was "demon possessed," which prompted Jackson to declare that the shooting "was a demonic spiritual act."</p>
<p>"We, as Christians, understand that there is more behind this than just a human being going in an attacking other human beings because of their race," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wby62tfos">Jackson said</a>. "The fact that he did it in a church, we know is a satanic or demonic act."</p>
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<p>Klingenschmitt and Jackson, apparently under the bizarre impression that the Nazis were liberals, then went on to assert that Roof, who had <a href="http://time.com/3930993/dylann-roof-council-of-conservative-citizens-charleston/">cited</a> the work of the right-wing Council of Conservative Citizens in his racist manifesto, had "socialist leanings" and was a left-wing radical because he embraced Nazi imagery and slogans.</p>
<p>"Hitler was not a right-wing person, he was not a conservative," Jackson declared. "Hitler was a socialist ... So when people see these symbols and want to somehow associate it with conservatives, they're completely wrong because that is simply not the history of socialism, which is exactly what Hitler called his party, the National Socialist Party."</p>
<p>"Unfortunately," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxRb8tF6buw">he continued</a>, "we have a very strong left-wing cabal in this country that are really extreme statists who want the state to control everything and it's a very dangerous place to go."</p>
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Kyle MantylaE.W. JacksonGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right58121Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:16:06 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Porter: 'With The Homosexualizing Of Marriage Comes The Criminalization Of Christianity'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-homosexualizing-marriage-comes-criminalization-christianity
<p>Faith2Action's Janet Porter was a guest recently on Gordon Klingenschmitt's "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJ_NHIGaOw">program</a>, where she warned that a Supreme Court ruling striking down state bans on gay marriage would result in the "criminalization of Christianity."</p>
<p>"We have, at this moment, freedom hanging by a thread," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8DnrxkPmI">Porter declared</a>. "If the Supreme Court rules wrong, if they homosexualize marriage, with the homosexualizing of marriage comes the criminalization of Christianity. That's what a stake."</p>
<p>As such, Porter is urging people to engage in "high octane" prayer and fasting because "our freedoms are at stake" and also to prepare themselves to disobey the court's ruling because "we need to be able to obey God rather than men."</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt Janet Porter (née Folger)Marriage EqualityC3Faith 2 Action Fighting the Right57796Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:24:08 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt: Boy Scouts Are Opening Organization To 'Untrustworthy Men Who Have A Fetish' For Young Boyshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-boy-scouts-are-opening-organization-untrustworthy-men-who-have-fetish-young-b
<p>Gordon Klingenschmitt is not happy that Boy Scouts of America president Robert Gates recently <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/robert-gates-boy-scouts-ban-gay-scout-leaders-118185.html">called for an end</a> to the organization's ban on gay scout leaders, demanding that the BSA fire Gates because "he is leading that organization into the path of destruction" by advocating a policy that will lead to "more homosexual molestation of young boys."</p>
<p>On a recent "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtuMOJg8i0">program</a>, Klingenschmitt blasted Gates for seeking to implement "training in unrighteousness by telling your young boys, future Eagle Scouts, future leaders of our country, that sin is acceptable." He then <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqh8QpzD35U">went on to pray</a> "against the demonic spirit of lawlessness and immorality and violation that would abuse young boys" that has taken hold of the organization and which seeks to open the doors to "untrustworthy men who have a fetish or an addiction and want to impose their power upon young and innocent boys."</p>
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Kyle MantylaBoy ScoutsGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right57411Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:14:06 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Rick Santorum Interviewed By Gordon Klingenschmitt, Colorado's Premier Anti-Gay Demon-Hunting Legislatorhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-santorum-interviewed-gordon-klingenschmitt-colorados-premier-anti-gay-demon-hunting-leg
<p>Last year, Gordon Klingenschmitt was elected to a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives, despite the fact that he was a long-time Religious Right activist with a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-dr-chaps-gordon-klingenschmitt-colorados-new-anti-gay-demon-hunting-state-legislator">well-documented history</a> of making <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/colorado-goper-gordon-klingenschmitts-10-craziest-moments-homophobia-exorcisms-and-more">outrageous statements</a>. Unsurprisingly, Klingenschmitt's tenure in office has been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-being-stripped-committee-assignment-klingenschmitt-suspends-his-pray-jesus-name-show">racked with controversy</a> precisely because he has continued to make those <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-brutal-attack-upon-pregnant-woman-curse-god-upon-america">sorts of statements,</a> but that did not dissuade Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum from agreeing to be interviewed by Klingenschmitt for his daily "Pray In Jesus Name" program.</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt managed to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6HwFiHvJMk">interview Santorum</a> when he was recently campaigning in the state and ask him about Indiana's effort to pass a law that would have granted business owners the right to discriminate against customers, particularly gay ones, in the name of "religious liberty."</p>
<p>Santorum <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/what-makes-indianas-religious-freedom-law-different/388997/">falsely</a> claimed that the original Indiana law was merely designed to protect religious "employees from discrimination at the workplace" and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2Zmes1Qk8">lamented</a> that "those who are defending religious liberty backed down, they're not willing to take the fight and be called all sorts of names and take the blows for standing up for religious liberty in the face of a media onslaught that doesn't care about the truth."</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoElection 2016Gordon Klingenschmitt Rick Santorum C3Fighting the Right57396Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:10:47 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Gordon Klingenschmitt's Bizarre Understanding Of What Constitutes 'Imposing Religion' Upon Studentshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitts-bizarre-understanding-what-constitutes-imposing-religion-upon-student
<p>Last month, a public school teacher <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/teachers-lawsuit-says-public-florence-high-school-is-promoting-christian-church-to-students">sued</a> his Colorado school district for allegedly allowing school officials to openly promote Christianity to students, claiming that a local pastor is regularly allowed to use the school's public address system to "preach his evangelical Christian messages" and that prayer meetings, Bible studies, and Christian events are held during school hours.</p>
<p>Among the complaints listed in the lawsuit is the allegation that this local pastor also hosts weekly Bible study session on campus over the lunch period, which students refer to as "Jesus pizza."</p>
<p>And Gordon Klingenschmitt, who happens to be a Republican member of the Colorado state legislature as well as a Religious Right activist, is outraged ... at this teacher for objecting, declaring on his most recent "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://youtu.be/A2NpLcfiYIY?t=7m53s">program</a> &mdash; without a hint of irony &mdash; that teachers "don't have a right to impose religious views upon the students."</p>
<p>"If you don't want to attend their 'Jesus pizza,' that's fine," Klingenschmitt said. 'You don't have to attend, but you don't get the right to sue to attend their 'Jesus pizza' because you're a teacher. Let the students organize themselves and have their own event. That's what the Supreme Court rules!"</p>
<p>Aside from the fact that this teacher is not suing for the right to <em>attend</em> these religious events but rather to <em>put an end</em> to them, Klingenschmitt is bizarrely arguing that it is perfectly fine for school officials to sanction and promote Christian events during school hours whereas efforts to stop that from happening is an effort to "impose religious views upon the students."</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoFirst AmendmentGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right57206Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:19:16 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Gordon Klingenschmitt Would Require Mandatory Ultrasounds, Then Still Deny Women The Right To Choosehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-would-require-mandatory-ultrasounds-then-still-deny-women-right-choose
<p>As Miranda has noted several times in recent months, there is a <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/personhood-movement-where-it-comes-and-what-it-means-future-choice?_ga=1.64205359.1271435949.1384007361">deep rift</a> within the anti-choice movement between the "incrementalists" who seek to ban abortion by gradually chipping away at access and legal protections and the "immediatists" who will only support efforts that seek to immediately and completely outlaw abortion.</p>
<p>Whereas the "incrementalists" are <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-choice-leader-admits-rape-exceptions-are-political-goal-outlaw-all-abortion-conception">willing to accept</a> some exceptions to anti-choice legislation for political reasons, "immediatists" decry such exceptions as a sell-out of the movement's core mission to outlaw and criminalize abortion.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, Colorado Republican state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt falls into the latter category, as he questioned the anti-choice bona fides of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for signing a law <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/does-scott-walker-even-know-whats-his-mandatory-ultrasound-law">forcing women to get an ultrasound</a> before seeking an abortion because the law still allows the women to get an abortion afterwards.</p>
<p>As Klingenschmitt explained on his most recent "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTWDc4DJys">program</a>, letting women still get an abortion after forcing them to undergo an ultrasound defeats the purpose of implementing anti-choice laws in the first place.</p>
<p>"Some of these ultrasound bills do inadvertently give permission to abort some children if an ultrasound is taken," Klingenschmitt said. "In other words, first you have to jump through all these hoops and then you can kill the baby. Those seven words &mdash; 'and then you can kill the baby' &mdash; are inadvertently in a lot of these so-called pro-life laws."</p>
<p>"My point is," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoPH3TMM4Q">he continued</a>, "make them get the ultrasound but then you still can't kill the baby after you get the ultrasound."</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt Reproductive HealthC3Fighting the Right56781Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:17:00 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt: Ireland Needs Another St. Patrick To Drive Out The Demons Who Voted For Gay Marriagehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-ireland-needs-another-st-patrick-drive-out-demons-who-voted-gay-marriage
<p>On his most recent "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkaprCexD68">program</a>, Gordon Klingenschmitt reacted to the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/23/europe/ireland-referendum-same-sex-marriage/">recent vote</a> by the citizens of Ireland to legalize gay marriage by declaring that the country needs a modern-day St. Patrick to rise up and rid the nation of the demonic "snakes" that are encouraging people to embrace sin.</p>
<p>"There was a time when it was said that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland," Klingenschmitt said, "and now I'm concerned that the snakes have returned to Ireland. And when I say snakes, I'm not talking about physical snakes, I'm talking about the demonic spirits inside of some of the people you see parading their sin in pride around the country, rejecting not just the Catholic Church but rejecting Jesus Christ himself."</p>
<p>"Jesus Christ defined marriage between one man and one woman," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuSylLeuyqU">he continued</a>, "and maybe it's time for another St. Patrick to go back into Ireland and preach the good news that Jesus can make you free from sin and drive out the snakes once again."</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right56541Fri, 29 May 2015 11:49:24 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt: Sentencing Of Former Egyptian President To Death Is A Fulfillment Of Biblical Prophecyhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-sentencing-former-egyptian-president-death-fulfillment-biblical-prophecy
<p>On his most recent "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57lhpb7uk0">program</a>, Gordon Klingenschmitt hailed <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-egypt-court-sentences-morsi-to-death-20150516-story.html">the news</a> that former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi had been sentenced to death, saying that Morsi&rsquo;s death sentence was prophesied in the Bible as a sign that Egypt would "come of Jesus Christ."</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt said that he discerned "the spirit of freedom" upon current Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for leading a military coup that overthrew "the tyrant Morsi" who was trying to impose Islam on the nation. And in sentencing Morsi to death, Klingenschmitt said, Biblical prophecy is now coming to fruition.</p>
<p>"This is, perhaps, a fulfillment of Scripture," he said. "This was prophesied, these days were prophesied by the Old Testament prophet Isaiah in chapter 19. He said, and God spoke to him about a prophecy about Egypt &mdash; in fact, it was against the demonic spirits in Egypt at that time &mdash; but he said that the Lord would deliver them and give them freedom."</p>
<p>Citing <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2019">a passage</a> stating that God "will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian, brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom," Klingenschmitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G41g_677aIo">said</a> that we are now seeing this prophecy fulfilled and it will lead to a "great evangelistic explosion [in Egypt] and they come to Jesus Christ":</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right56436Thu, 28 May 2015 13:06:01 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt: Gays Need Conversion Therapy To 'Get The Devil Out'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-gays-need-conversion-therapy-get-devil-out
<p>The Supreme Court recently <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2015/05/04/scotus-goes-anti-choice-on-reparative-therapy#.VVtKk5P3RDQ">rejected legal challenges</a> to California and New Jersey laws banning the use of "ex-gay" conversion therapy on minors and Gordon Klingenschmitt is not pleased because now gay people will be unable to free themselves from the demons that control them.</p>
<p>As he explained on his "Pray In Jesus Name" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xzcQo6K9c">program</a> recently, "there is a demonic spirit ... inside of the addict that is controlling the voluntary choices, or at least has contracted with them and is manifesting through them in this sinful addiction. And what is the only way to treat that? It's to get the Devil out and to get the Holy Spirit in."</p>
<p>In rejecting efforts to overturn bans on conversion therapy, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPnko-FO2U">Klingenschmitt said</a>, judges are "cooperating with the demonic spirit inside of the homosexual addict and those judges are now reinforcing the sin and saying you cannot be delivered, you cannot cured, you cannot be healed":</p>
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Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right55906Tue, 19 May 2015 11:00:48 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Paranoia-Rama: Sharia Law In Walmart, Satan Controls Marijuana And Gays Destroying The Food Supplyhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-sharia-law-walmart-satan-controls-marijuana-and-gays-destroying-food-supply
<p><em>RWW&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/paranoia-rama">Paranoia-Rama</a> takes a look at five of the week&rsquo;s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.</em></p>
<p>Americans have a right to be worried: While President Obama is bringing in thousands of Muslim refugees who will impose Sharia law in Walmart stores, gay people are provoking God into punishing America through drought and famine. But don&rsquo;t look to pot to calm you down, as it is simply a tool that Satan will use to devour you.</p>
<p><strong>5) Benghazi Conspiracy Theories Never Die </strong></p>
<p>While Jeb Bush has been <a href="http://barbwire.com/2015/05/15/1000-christian-genocide-in-full-swing-where-are-obama-and-our-leaders/">confronted</a> on the campaign trail about his brother&rsquo;s disastrous legacy in the Middle East, conservative talk show host Laurie Roth knows who is really to blame for ISIS: President Obama. Roth <a href="http://barbwire.com/2015/05/15/1000-christian-genocide-in-full-swing-where-are-obama-and-our-leaders/">writes in BarbWire</a> that &ldquo;Obama has been complicit in creating ISIS &ndash; ISIL by sending them (through Lybia [sic]) thousands of lethal and high-end weapons and money.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Not only did America, under Barack Obama&rsquo;s leadership, weaponize the Islamic rebels, growing and creating ISIS and its offspring, but the weapons pathway and illegal activities lead [sic] to the murder of Ambassador Stevens and staff,&rdquo; she said, adding that Obama appears to be &ldquo;in full support of the Islamic caliphate and murderous genocide of Christians worldwide.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Roth seems to conveniently ignore the <a href="http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2014/0814_iraq/">thousands of airstrikes against ISIS forces</a> carried out by a U.S.-led coalition, and also doesn&rsquo;t realize that the right-wing conspiracy theory <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sen-rand-i-dont-have-any-proof-paul">championed by Sen. Rand Paul and WorldNetDaily</a> that the Obama administration was sending arms to terrorists via Libya has been<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/the-real-benghazi-cia-insiders-account-117828.html#.VVYmDvlVhBc">completely</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/politics/benghazi-attack-report/">discredited</a>.</p>
<p>While Roth demanded that Rep. Trey Gowdy investigate the claim, a House GOP-led investigative report [<a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/11/21/benghazi.report.pdf">PDF</a>] found that &ldquo;the CIA was not collecting and shipping arms from Libya to Syria&rdquo; and that &ldquo;eyewitness testimony and thousands of pages of CIA cables and emails that the Committee reviewed provide no support for this allegation.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>4) Obama&rsquo;s Refugee Plot</strong></p>
<p>Right-wing activists are increasingly outraged that some Iraqi and Syrian refugees have been resettled in the U.S. The U.S. has settled just <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/2/s-idaho-refugee-center-expecting-influx-of-syrian-/print/">over 600 refugees</a> from the Syrian civil war, which caused over 4 million Syrians to leave the country. This week, one right-wing pundit described those 600 refugees as a Muslim &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-obama-flooding-america-muslims-create-one-world-government">flood</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>One BarbWire columnist <a href="http://barbwire.com/2015/05/15/0800-planting-season-while-you-plant-flowers-obamas-planting-muslims/">said</a> that Obama is bringing in the refugees in order to create &ldquo;pockets of potential jihad in America&rdquo; and sow &ldquo;a harvest from Hell,&rdquo; while the editor of the Conservative Review wondered if the refugees will bring about &ldquo;the death&rdquo; of the American Republic and cause Jews to &ldquo;flee&rdquo; the country. One anti-immigrant activist, Ann Corcoran, warned that the administration is &ldquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-obama-flooding-america-muslims-create-one-world-government">literally swapping out the people</a>&rdquo; of the U.S. by bringing in refugees who want &ldquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ann-corcoran-refugee-resettlement-meant-rub-diversity-noses-conservative-communities"> to create an Islamic state throughout the world</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican candidate for president, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-paul-us-shouldnt-accept-iraqi-refugees-because-we-won-war">offered his own take</a>, insisting that the U.S. shouldn&rsquo;t take any refugees who fled Iraq following the 2003 U.S. invasion since Americans &ldquo;won the war.&rdquo; Plus, Paul claimed, the refugees could increase the threat of terrorism and should be left in Iraq since they are &ldquo;friends of the West&rdquo; who should be left in the country to &ldquo;form a better country over there.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>3) Walmart Sharia</strong></p>
<p>Clearly, Muslim refugees have already brought Sharia law to the U.S., or at least, to Walmart stores.</p>
<p>Allen West, who since losing his House seat has become a Fox News contributor and the head of the National Center for Policy Analysis, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/11/allen-west-thought-he-was-the-victim-of-sharia/203610"> wrote a <em>just asking the question&shy;-</em>style post </a> on his personal blog this week entitled, &ldquo; <a href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2015/05/11/allenwestwalmartcapture.jpg">Sharia law comes to Walmart?</a>&rdquo;</p>
<p>West reported that he was trying to purchase alcohol from a local Walmart when he noticed that the line he was in had a sign reading, &ldquo;No alcohol products in this lane.&rdquo; West saw that the &ldquo;young man dong the checkout&rdquo; in that line wore a name tag with what he determined was a Muslim name (&ldquo;Let me just say it was NOT Steve.&rdquo;) Aghast, West wanted readers to know that &ldquo;this Muslim employee&rdquo; was discriminating against him, making West a victim of Sharia law.</p>
<p>Of course, West was quickly forced to update his post with the response of a Walmart employee who noted that the sign was posted because &ldquo;employees under 21 years old are prohibited from selling cigarettes and alcohol.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Despite the fact that everything West stated &mdash; sorry, <em>asked</em> &mdash; in his post was wrong, he insisted that he still believes that Walmart might be &ldquo;caving to Muslim demands&rdquo; and re-titled the post, &ldquo;<a href="http://allenbwest.com/2015/05/sharia-law-comes-to-walmart/">More ominous signs of Christian persecution</a>.&rdquo; His (fake) case of (fake) persecution then led him to rant about the resettlement of Muslim refugees in the U.S., which he blamed on the fact that Obama is leading &ldquo;the most anti-Christian executive branch in recent history.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>2) Blame the Gays</strong></p>
<p>Religious Right radio host Rick Wiles thinks America is already experiencing divine punishment for its increasing support of gay rights, claiming that marriage equality is responsible for <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-god-sending-drought-and-famine-punish-us-gay-marriage-legal-abortion"> the drought in California and mass deaths of honeybees, piglets, chickens and turkeys</a>. &ldquo;America is in a state of rebellion against almighty God,&rdquo; Wiles said this week, &ldquo;and we wonder why the food supply is diminishing? God is cutting off America&rsquo;s food supply.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Wiles added that &ldquo;it will get worse in the days ahead if the nation does not repent&rdquo; by &ldquo;shutting down the abortion clinics, all of them&rdquo; and &ldquo;abolishing same-sex marriage.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>One guest of his radio program, conservative activist Herb Titus, even said that gay people are <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/herb-titus-gay-marriage-will-lead-slavery-and-death">turning Christians into their &ldquo;slaves&rdquo;</a> and &ldquo;will use legal force along with illegal force to get there way.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>1)</strong> <strong> </strong> <strong>Satan&rsquo;s Plant</strong></p>
<p>Colorado state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt is not pleased that voters in his state voted in 2012 to legalize marijuana, telling &ldquo;Pray In Jesus Name&rdquo; viewers this week that people who use pot are inviting &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-pot-legalization-do-you-really-want-be-devoured-devil">a demonic spirit of drunkenness</a>&rdquo; into their bodies.</p>
<p>&ldquo;When you begin hallucinating, I&rsquo;m told, and you begin seeing these images,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;you&rsquo;re having apparitions and you are seeing and interacting with and welcoming to rule your heart a demonic spirit of drunkenness. That&rsquo;s not recreational. It&rsquo;s evil.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt said that before using pot, one should ask oneself: &ldquo;Do you really want to be devoured by the devil?&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAllen WestC4Gordon Klingenschmitt Laurie RothParanoia-RamaRand PaulRick WilesFighting the Right55761Fri, 15 May 2015 14:50:39 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Takeover! Jade Helm 15 And Eight Other Obama Plots That Keep The Right Up at Nighthttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/takeover-jade-helm-15-and-eight-other-obama-plots-keep-right-night
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<p>It seems that radical right-wing conspiracy theorists have the ear of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who recently <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/texas-gop-governor-embraces-martial-law-conspiracy-theory">ordered</a> the Texas State Guard to monitor a U.S. military exercise called Jade Helm 15. According to many of these far-right activists, Jade Helm 15 is part of a secret effort to take over conservative states like Texas,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barbwire-pundit-jade-helm-15-final-stage-obama-takeover">impose martial law</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/is-jade-helm-about-firearm-confiscation/">confiscate people&rsquo;s firearms</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-military-preparing-round-patriotic-men">round up &ldquo;patriotic men,&rdquo;</a> <a href="http://wonkette.com/585036/obamas-fema-trains-coming-to-capture-all-the-texans-oh-my">force people into cattle cars</a> and <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/military-ops-on-u-s-soil-raise-martial-law-fears/" id="LPlnk153503"> lock them up in Wal-Marts that have been converted into FEMA camps</a>.</p>
<p>Abbott has since tried to distance himself from the conspiracy theory, but Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tex., has demanded &mdash; and apparently received &mdash; a meeting with military leaders over the matter.</p>
<p>Jade Helm 15 is just the latest in a litany of far-right conspiracy theories about President Obama planning a military takeover of the country. While none of the theories has ever actually panned out, far-right pundits and activists keep inventing new ones, insisting that whoever doesn&rsquo;t agree with them either doesn&rsquo;t see the <em>truth </em>or is enabling Obama&rsquo;s dictatorial agenda.</p>
<p>Remember: Obama&rsquo;s plot against America goes all the way back to his birth&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>1) Barack the Baby Communist</strong></p>
<p>Faith 2 Action founder Janet Porter, who recently worked with Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul and several GOP candidates on a film about how the gay rights movement will &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-leaders-join-anti-gay-extremists-insane-documentary">criminalize Christianity</a>,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2009/02/88439/">revealed to WorldNetDaily readers</a> just two weeks into Obama&rsquo;s first term that she had learned through a chain email that the president had been planted as a baby by Russian communists who would use him to take over America.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t prove whether it&rsquo;s true or not, but in light of all that is happening, it just doesn&rsquo;t seem that far-fetched anymore,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/definitive-proof-communist-conspiracy">Porter wrote</a>, claiming that the letter was &ldquo;not some e-mail scam&rdquo; and that she personally reached out to its source to confirm the details.</p>
<p>According to the email&rsquo;s author, during the early 1990s he met two Russian scientists, spouses &ldquo;V.M&rdquo; and &ldquo;T.M,&rdquo; who told him that &ldquo;you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist&rdquo; &hellip; named &ldquo;Barack.&rdquo; The Russians continued:</p>
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This is not some idle talk. He is already born, and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of presidents. He is what you call &lsquo;Ivy League.&rsquo; You don&rsquo;t believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. That&rsquo;s right, a chocolate baby! And he&rsquo;s going to be your president.<br />
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It&rsquo;s all been thought out. His father is not an American black, so he won&rsquo;t have that social slave stigma. He is intelligent and he is half white and has been raised from the cradle to be an atheist and a Communist. He&rsquo;s gone to the finest schools. He is being guided every step of the way and he will be irresistible to America<br />
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The female scientist seemed to know a lot about this young man: &ldquo;She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the Legislature. &lsquo;Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet &hellip;. [H]e will be a blessing for world Communism. We will regain our strength and become the number one power in the world.&rsquo; She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism. America would have to be converted to Communism, and Barack was going to pave the way.&rdquo;<br />
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<p>A few right-wing activists tried to find proof of this arrangement, alleging that Communist Party mentored and indoctrinated Obama &mdash; possibly with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-pundit-obama-brainwashed-communism-while-he-was-high">the help of marijuana</a> and his &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">real father</a>&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gun-owners-america-chief-embraces-fringe-obamas-real-father-birther-theory">Frank Marshall Davis</a> &mdash; into &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">Marxism and an anti-White world view</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>As it turned out, every single word in this chain email was true! Maybe. And now, Obama is on the brink of taking over America with his secret squads of Obamacare militias, immigrants, African Americans and/or foreign troops.</p>
<p><strong>2) Obamacare Squads</strong></p>
<p>Before joining the Family Research Council, retired Army Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin released a video with the far-right group the Oak Initiative suggesting that Obama is leading a &ldquo;Marxist insurgency&rdquo; in the U.S. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-exposes-obamas-health-care-conspiracy-build-his-brownshirt-army">claimed</a> that Obama inserted into the Affordable Care Act a measure that would create a personal army reminiscent of Adolf Hitler&rsquo;s Brownshirts, warning that the president was &ldquo;laying the groundwork for a constabulary force that will control the population in America.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Boykin cited a provision in the health care act which prepares medical professionals&nbsp;<a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2010/04/obamas-private-army/">to respond to emergencies such as a hurricane</a>, along with <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2008/11/obamas-national-security-force/">a 2008 speech</a> that then-candidate Obama delivered about the need to increase funding for groups such as the Peace Corps and AmericaCorps as part of a &ldquo;civilian national security force,&rdquo; a move <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27655039/#.VVJma_lVhBc">backed by the Bush administration</a>.</p>
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<p>Several years later, the Obamacare brownshirts still haven&rsquo;t materialized, but the 2008 speech remains a source of fodder for conservatives who believe, as then-Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., put it shortly after Obama&rsquo;s election, that Obama was doing &ldquo;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/11/11/32180/broun-obama-gestapo/">exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it&rsquo;s exactly what the Soviet Union did</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Liberty Counsel head Mat Staver agreed with Boykin&rsquo;s assessment, warning that the health care law <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sputtering-start-religious-rights-rebranding">created a Brownshirt-style military force</a> loyal to the president.</p>
<p>Porter <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-obama-fema-stifle-dissent">joined in</a> in 2012, claiming that FEMA Corps, which trains young people to work in disaster response, might actually be &ldquo;a standing army to stifle dissent&rdquo; and &ldquo;part of a new civilian security force that President Obama has called for in speeches.&rdquo; WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah, who once alleged that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-cleverly-deciphers-obamas-call-genocide"> Obama sent a secret signal to Muslims to &ldquo;finish&rdquo; the Holocaust against the Jews</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-obama-fema-stifle-dissent">similarly warned</a> that Obama would soon &ldquo;move to shut down and destroy all independent media&rdquo; and would make sure that &ldquo;his biggest critics will be rounded up in the name of national security.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>3) About That Executive Order&hellip;</strong></p>
<p>In 2012, when Obama issued an <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ndrp.asp">emergency preparedness executive order</a> similar to ones issued by presidents since Dwight Eisenhower, some right-wing commentators went ballistic since this time, the president was Obama!</p>
<p>Buster Wilson, then a radio host with the American Family Association&rsquo;s radio network, claimed that the executive order created &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/buster-wilson-dhs-plotting-civil-war">the president&rsquo;s version of the Brownshirts</a>&rdquo; that was equivalent to &ldquo;Hitler&rsquo;s own private civilian army.&rdquo; Wilson also wondered if the government was setting up <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/buster-wilson-government-concentration-camps">FEMA camps stocked with plastic coffins for mass graves</a>.</p>
<p>&ldquo;He is openly implementing martial law in this country,&rdquo; InfoWars host Alex Jones <a href="http://www.infowars.com/martial-law-obama-issues-executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness/">said</a> about the executive order. The executive order, Jones claimed, declared that administration officials would have the power to &ldquo;secretly arrest Americans and disappear us any time they want&rdquo; and build &ldquo;the domestic security force that&rsquo;s just as big and just as strong as the military Obama&rsquo;s always talked about as the &lsquo;FEMA Corps.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>One congressman, then-Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, suggested that the president would <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-congressman-obama-wants-ebola-spread-so-he-can-take-control-everything"> use the executive order to seize total power</a>. In fact, Stockman speculated that Obama may have deliberately brought Ebola to America in order to create a crisis to justify the implementation of his order granting himself &ldquo;emergency powers to take over control of the economy and everything.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>4) Ebola! Remember That?</strong></p>
<p>Last year, four people were diagnosed with Ebola while in the U.S., two after travelling from West Africa and two after caring for an Ebola patient at a hospital in Texas. In the eyes of conservatives, this was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/five-crazy-conspiracy-theories-about-ebola-conservatives-actually-believe"> a widespread pandemic that was all Obama&rsquo;s fault</a>.</p>
<p>According to Stockman, Obama may have had <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-congressman-obama-wants-ebola-spread-so-he-can-take-control-everything"> an &ldquo;intentional&rdquo; plan to bring Ebola into the U.S. </a> &ldquo;in order to create a greater crisis to use it as a blunt force to say, well in order to solve this crisis we&rsquo;re going to have to take control of the economy and individuals and so forth&hellip;. [T]here may be an overreaction where the government starts taking away the rights of those that aren&rsquo;t that necessarily involved or need that to happen. I hope that&rsquo;s not that case but, as you know, this current government uses crisis to advance their philosophy and their agenda.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Conservative talk show host Michael Savage claimed Obama &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michael-savage-ebola-could-be-blessing-prompts-obamas-removal-office">might use Ebola as a pretext</a>&rdquo; to &ldquo;gain even more power.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He wants an insurrection,&rdquo; Savage declared. &ldquo;He wants a pretext. He wants his Kristallnacht. He wants to take the guns, he wants to arrest people, he wants to detain people for their own safety.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Radio host Rick Wiles <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-government-will-unleash-ebola-round-patriots">predicted</a> that Ebola was part of &ldquo;a carefully crafted plan to dismantle the United States of America,&rdquo; as it would be used &ldquo;as the cover to round up patriots who resist the takedown of the republic&rdquo; and set up &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-obama-will-threaten-veterans-ebola-establish-ebola-reeducation-camps">Ebola Barry&rsquo;s Ebola Recovery and Re-Education Camps</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Another far-right radio host, Laurie Roth, predicted that Obama would <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/laurie-roth-obama-allowing-isis-send-ebola-patients-us-so-he-can-use-fake-vaccines-track-peo"> deliberately fuel an Ebola outbreak </a> in order to &ldquo;create a guise to declare martial law due to created outbreaks,&rdquo; giving him the power to &ldquo;control speech, food, travel and health care&rdquo; and even &ldquo;demand adults and children take some sort of mandated/mystery vaccination that kills off even more people&rdquo;:</p>
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My prediction is that a forced vaccination plan from Obama and his administration is on its way. This will not only allow someone put in control (so Obama can&rsquo;t be blamed) to release something potentially fatal into our system, but also act as a tracker &ndash; the complete end of our privacy and freedom.</blockquote>
<p>Columnists for WorldNetDialy alleged that Ebola was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/worldnetdaily-pundit-obama-using-ebola-put-us-fema-coffins-impose-martial-law"> part of Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;orchestrated&rdquo; plan </a> to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-columnist-obama-might-bring-ebola-america-cancel-2016-election">cancel the 2016 election</a>, &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-diabolical-obama-may-want-ebola-spread-united-states">&lsquo;legitimize&rsquo; a declaration of martial law in America</a>&rdquo; and make use of &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/worldnetdaily-pundit-obama-using-ebola-put-us-fema-coffins-impose-martial-law">the $1 billion worth of disposable FEMA coffins supposedly stored in Georgia</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Prior to the Ebola scare, Porter took to WorldNetDaily to predict that Obama would use swine flu to &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/limitless-insanity-janet-porter">round up American citizens</a>&rdquo; and force them into FEMA concentration camps. She <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/may-day-saving-america-forced-starvation-obamas-brownshirts-and-gods-wrath"> also told WorldNetDaily readers </a> that the president, emulating Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, would create &ldquo;a food shortage&rdquo; to see that people are &ldquo;starved to death.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>5) Obama&rsquo;s Race War Ruse</strong></p>
<p>Since predictions about Obama&rsquo;s dastardly plan to infect all other Americans with the Ebola virus in order to seize power didn&rsquo;t exactly come true, conservative activists have turned to recent demonstrations over issues such as racial profiling as another Obama-orchestrated plot to take control of the country.</p>
<p>Glenn Beck, once again citing Obama&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2008/11/obamas-national-security-force/">frequently distorted</a> 2008 speech, said that the riots that broke out during demonstrations in Baltimore in April were part of a &ldquo;set-up&rdquo; by the government to engineer civil strife in order to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/were-being-set-glenn-beck-warns-his-audience-prepare-time-when-he-murdered-night"> justify a federal takeover of local police units</a>. And, once that happens, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s lights out, republic.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is the biggest show ever,&rdquo; Beck said. &ldquo;Those riots in Baltimore; that wasn&rsquo;t real.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Beck went on to say that this manufactured crisis will soon lead to a full-blown genocide in which <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/were-being-set-glenn-beck-warns-his-audience-prepare-time-when-he-murdered-night"> millions of people, including Beck himself, will perish</a>.</p>
<p>Others in the right-wing media took similar views. Wiles claimed that protests in Ferguson, Missouri, were all part of a plot to enable <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-wonders-if-ferguson-protests-are-false-flag-push-gun-control-and-start-civil-war"> &ldquo;Emperor Obama&rdquo; to &ldquo;start a civil war,&rdquo; </a> which would give him a reason to implement stringent gun control so people could no longer &ldquo;protect themselves from tyrants.&rdquo; His fellow conservative talk show host Jesse Lee Peterson said that Obama brought &ldquo;chaos&rdquo; to Baltimore just so &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/peterson-obama-pulling-strings-baltimore-so-he-can-seize-control-nations-police-forces">he can federalize the police departments around the country</a>.&rdquo; WorldNetDaily columnist Morgan Brittany claimed that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-pundit-obama-sparked-baltimore-riots-cancel-2016-election-declare-martial-law"> the Baltimore riots were &ldquo;planned&rdquo; by the government</a>, which she said is bent on &ldquo;stirring up unrest&rdquo; in order to give Obama the justification &ldquo;to institute martial law to preserve order, form a national police force and postpone the 2016 elections.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Savage, the conservative radio host, even went so far as to allege that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/savage-obama-will-arm-crips-and-bloods-coming-race-war"> Obama started the riots as a way to send arms to gang members </a> under the pretext of preserving order: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a race war. These are their shock troops, they don&rsquo;t have the brown shirts yet, they don&rsquo;t have the armbands, but soon Obama could deputize them. Isn&rsquo;t that a natural army for him? Take the Crips and the Bloods, give them a green uniform and give them a weapon and they&rsquo;ll keep order in the streets.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Well before the Ferguson and Baltimore demonstrations, Gun Owners of America head Larry Pratt and far-right pundit Stan Solomon predicted that the president would <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gun-activists-warn-obama-raising-private-black-army-white-massacre-americans"> create a &ldquo;black force&rdquo; that would massacre any white people who resisted his plans. </a></p>
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<p>In <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-agrees-race-war-will-pit-christian-heterosexual-white-haves-against-black-muslim"> another interview</a>, Pratt accused Obama of hoping to &ldquo;bring violence&rdquo; and &ldquo;some kind of social implosion to America&rdquo; as a way to keep power, with Solomon warning of &ldquo;an explosion of attacks on haves by have-nots&rdquo; and &ldquo;more specifically on white haves by black have-nots; more specifically on Christian, heterosexual white haves by black, Muslim and/or atheist &mdash; not that there&rsquo;s much difference &mdash; black have-nots.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>6) Bundy Ranch Standoff</strong></p>
<p>The short-lived standoff between federal law enforcement and Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gops-bad-bet-right-wing-lionization-cliven-bundy-backfires-wake-racist-statements">Fox News darling</a> who refused to pay grazing fees for his cattle or to recognize the legal authority of the U.S. government, gave another opportunity for right-wing commentators to warn of an imminent federal takeover spurred on by Obama-instigated violence.</p>
<p>WorldNetDaily columnist Erik Rush <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-fears-federal-plot-put-cliven-bundy-fema-camp-and-seize-control-food-supply"> pointed to the Bundy standoff as proof </a> that &ldquo;the federal government intends to control everything,&rdquo; including &ldquo;our food supply.&rdquo; Denouncing President Obama as a someone who &ldquo;embodies the diabolical Manchurian President, clandestinely working to destroy America,&rdquo; Rush warned that the Bundy standoff might have been a test case for <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-fears-federal-plot-put-cliven-bundy-fema-camp-and-seize-control-food-supply"> imminent FEMA camp internment</a>.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Do we wait until a family is slaughtered because they opened fire on government agents executing an illegal raid on their home?&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;Do we wait until Department of Homeland Security operatives come around to arrest &lsquo;domestic terrorists&rsquo; as designated by Harry Reid and ship them off to FEMA camps?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Televangelist Gordon Klingenschmitt, who has since been elected to the Colorado legislature, said that the federal government dug &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-speculates-government-will-kill-bundy-protesters">mass graves</a>&rdquo; near the ranch to hold the bodies of the &ldquo;cowboys&rdquo; they planned to murder. Wiles had a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-hails-cliven-bundy-standoff-blood-will-flow-citizens-fight-back-against-tyranny"> similar theory</a>:</p>
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Civil unrest is brewing, the Obamanistas have tried a number of tactics to insult and infuriate the American people to respond with violence&hellip;. I expect dirty Harry Reid and his Washington sidekick Barry Soetoro will send federal agents back to Nevada this summer and my fear is that federal snipers will take out a bunch of cowboys and militia men.</blockquote>
<p>Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, a radical group which fears that concentration camps are coming to the U.S., stopped by a press conference at the National Press Club to deliver a &ldquo;message for the feds out there&rdquo; and the &ldquo;idiot&rdquo; Obama that the Bundy standoff could have &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/stewart-rhodes-bundy-ranch-standoff-nearly-turned-military-against-feds-started-civil-war">kicked off a civil war in this country</a>.&rdquo; Mike Vanderboegh of the Three Percenters militia said that officials such as Harry Reid were <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bundy-ranch-speaker-warns-civil-war-vast-scale-promises-harry-reid-will-have-his-balls-rippe"> &ldquo;promising us all civil war on a vast scale&rdquo; through &ldquo;state-sponsored violence&rdquo; </a> intended to crush freedom.</p>
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<p><strong>7) Obama&rsquo;s Immigrant Army</strong></p>
<p>Not only will Obama have loyal armies of doctors, AmeriCorps members, black protesters and gang members, but he will also, according to several conspiracy theorists, create a force of undocumented immigrants &mdash; specifically young Central American <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/a-refugee-crisis-not-an-immigration-crisis.html?_r=0">refugees</a> escaping the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/21/the-child-migrant-crisis-is-just-the-latest-disastrous-consequence-of-americas-drug-war/"> drug war </a> &mdash; to do his bidding.</p>
<p>Pratt, the gun lobbyist, claimed last year that Obama was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-obama-will-use-undocumented-immigrants-his-praetorian-guard"> forming a private &ldquo;Praetorian Guard&rdquo; composed of undocumented immigrants</a>, each &ldquo;loyal to the guy that brought him&rdquo; into the country.</p>
<p>Anti-immigrant activist William Gheen <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/william-gheen-obama-will-give-immigrants-badges-and-guns-go-after-christian-heterosexual-mal"> offered his own version of this prediction</a>, alleging that the federal government was &ldquo;going to give the illegal immigrants badges, they&rsquo;re going to give them guns, and they&rsquo;re going to put them in positions of authority over Americans in every way imaginable. So when you step out your door and there&rsquo;s a knock at the door, you&rsquo;re going to be looking at the new face of the state, which is the prior illegal immigrants that now have a badge and a gun and dominion over you.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gheen added that the Obama administration was &ldquo;supporting the organized and well-funded illegal alien invasion of our homeland&rdquo; and therefore has &ldquo;the blood of many thousands of Americans on their hands that have been killed, injured raped and robbed by illegal immigrants,&rdquo; warning that &ldquo;center-right, Christian, heterosexual&rdquo; men were particularly at risk.</p>
<p>Gheen even told Jones, the &ldquo;InfoWars&rdquo; host, that the young immigrants were <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/william-gheen-and-alex-jones-obama-using-obamaphones-recruit-central-american-kids-become-ch"> the pawns and child soldiers of U.S. &ldquo;elites&rdquo; </a> who want to subjugate patriotic Christians: &ldquo;They&rsquo;re willing to literally say and do anything that their new masters call on them to do to protect their position. Once Obama rams these &lsquo;kids&rsquo; in, gives them their Obamaphone, enrolls them in Obamacare, puts them in a public school, pays for their housing, pays for their food&hellip;these people will do anything that their leaders call on them to do and I do mean anything.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Alan Keyes wondered if Obama, whom he thinks <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alan-keyes-obama-will-become-americas-hitler-destroy-country-twin-towers">wants to become America&rsquo;s &ldquo;F&uuml;hrer</a>,&rdquo; was &ldquo;importing&rdquo; immigrants &ldquo;in order to facilitate what I think is an overthrow of our Constitution.&rdquo;</p>
<p>WorldNetDaily&rsquo;s resident health &ldquo;expert&rdquo; Elizabeth Lee Vliet <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/apparently-obama-will-use-immigrants-spread-diseases-and-usher-socialism">claimed</a> that the government would use a &ldquo;flood of illegals&rdquo; who carry exotic diseases to &ldquo;overwhelm and collapse the economic and social systems, in order to replace them with a &lsquo;new socialist order&rsquo; under federal control.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>8) Obama&rsquo;s Atheist/Islamic/Canadian/Alien Army</strong></p>
<p>Building off the birther conspiracy theory that Obama is not a U.S.-born citizen and the general right-wing belief that he is not a <em>real </em>American, several conservative activists believe that the president will use foreign forces, outside of just immigrants and health care workers, to oppress Americans.</p>
<p>According to Bill Federer, a Religious Right &ldquo;historian,&rdquo; the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-activist-exposes-obama-ferguson-islamist-homosexual-plot-destroy-america"> Arab Spring was designed by nefarious forces </a> who wanted to create a surge in Muslim refugees who would then settle in the U.S. in order to establish Islamic &ldquo;sleeper cells.&rdquo; Soon, these sleeper cells would &ldquo;get a signal to have Ferguson riots in malls across America,&rdquo; which would give Obama the justification to &ldquo;restore order&rdquo; by setting up a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-activist-exposes-obama-ferguson-islamist-homosexual-plot-destroy-america">militarized dictatorship</a>.&rdquo; Obama, Federer warned, could follow in the footsteps of Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot in <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bill-federer-worries-atheists-will-kill-millions-christians-if-they-can-take-over-military"> killing millions of Christians</a>.</p>
<p>Federer cited a man named Avi Lipkin, who apparently heard from his wife, who heard from an unspecified Arabic-language broadcast, about a plot to bring millions of Muslim refugees into the country in order to bring about Sharia law. Lipkin <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ultimate-obama-muslim-sharia-agenda21-immigration-debt-conspiracy">alleged</a> that Obama was &ldquo;going to bring in 50 to 100 million Muslims&rdquo; and settle them in <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/muslim-plot-take-over-national-parks-exposed">national parks</a> and &ldquo;lands confiscated by Agenda 21&rdquo; &mdash; a sustainable development initiative that is at the center of its very own right-wing conspiracy theory &mdash; ultimately forcing America to &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ultimate-obama-muslim-sharia-agenda21-immigration-debt-conspiracy">surrender its Christianity</a>&rdquo; in the face of a new &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/muslim-plot-take-over-national-parks-exposed">Muslim majority</a>.&rdquo; Then, Obama would establish a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/muslim-plot-take-over-national-parks-exposed">dictatorship</a>&rdquo; &hellip; with the help of &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/craziest-obama-conspiracy-theory-gets-even-crazier">the Masons, the Illuminati [and] the Trilateral Commission</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Lipkin and Federer, however, don&rsquo;t hold a candle to Jim Garrow, a right-wing activist who believes that Obama tried <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/obama-soros-conspiracy-nuke-america-and-kill-300-million-people-exposed"> to kill 300 million Americans with an EMP attack </a> for the sake of enriching George Soros and giving him the chance to live in a luxurious bunker underneath the White House. Garrow also believes that Obama will try to improve his poll numbers <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garrow-reveals-obamas-secret-plan-use-aliens-and-canadians-plot-against-america"> by claiming that he is able to communicate with aliens, </a> but if they plummet any further and Americans start to revolt, then Obama will &ldquo;ask [Canadian Prime Minister Stephen] Harper to send troops into America to help quell the rioting and vice versa.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Garrow shared his very plausible anti-Obama conspiracy theories with far-right radio hosts including Wiles, Rush and Jones. Garrow told Jones in detail about Obama&rsquo;s EMP plot, which he said was only <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garrow-claims-reagan-almost-nuked-mecca-god-stopped-obama-nuking-us"> stopped as a result of divine intervention</a>, along with the president&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpNBrzNEXc&feature=youtu.be&t=498" id="LPlnk48325"> failed plan to detonate a nuclear device near Charleston, South Carolina</a>. Fortunately, the nuke, Garrow said, was detonated safely off the coast by heroic military officials. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garrow-obama-nuked-dolphins">cited the deaths of dolphins </a> (who were likely killed by the BP oil spill) as proof.</p>
<p>Jones <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywfG7dcQg3A">talked to</a> another &ldquo;real source&rdquo; about the need to &ldquo;brace for a nuclear attack in South Carolina,&rdquo; who alleged that Charleston was the target because of the presence of U.S. submarines: &ldquo;This is a false flag operation, a major false flag, that is about to occur because if they take out our naval base in Charleston, they will cripple about one-third of our fleet ballistic missile submarine force.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Everything they are doing is like trying to set America up,&rdquo; Jones <a href="https://youtu.be/ywfG7dcQg3A?t=539">replied</a>, wondering if &ldquo;Obama is like a triple agent of the globalists, we know that, and they are maneuvering America towards a set-up to destroy us and then Homeland Security will then detonate nukes in all of our bases as an inside sneak attack.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This ultimately reeks of yet another false flag being orchestrated by the United States government in order to send us into war,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-19/whoa-if-true-obama-s-secret-plan-to-nuke-charleston-south-carolina">Jones said</a> in another commentary about the matter. &ldquo;I just wish to God that this wasn&rsquo;t happening,&rdquo; he <a href="https://youtu.be/ywfG7dcQg3A?t=871">said</a>.</p>
<p>This is the same Alex Jones who launched Jade Helm 15 into the GOP mainstream and led to such a fear that the governor of Texas ordered the National Guard to monitor the U.S. military during the drill.</p>
<p>Of course, when one conspiracy theory fails to materialize, radio hosts like Alex Jones just move on to the next one, and then eventually, Republican politicians just move along with them.</p>
<p>As Rick Santorum found out, among the party&rsquo;s base &mdash; as many of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/poll-one-third-republicans-think-obama-wants-invade-texas">one-third</a> of whom think Obama will invade Texas &mdash; at least some people think that it is an established fact that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remember-time-obama-almost-nuked-charleston">Obama tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston</a>.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAlan Keyes Avi LipkinBill FedererC4Cliven BundyErik RushGordon Klingenschmitt Jade Helm 15Janet Porter (née Folger)Jerry BoykinJim GarrowLarry PrattMat Staver Michael Savage Rick WilesSteve StockmanStewart RhodesWilliam GheenGlenn BeckFighting the Right55706Thu, 14 May 2015 15:30:56 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt On Pot Legalization: 'Do You Really Want To Be Devoured By The Devil?'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-pot-legalization-do-you-really-want-be-devoured-devil
<p>Now that the Colorado legislative session has ended, so too has state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt's self-imposed <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-being-stripped-committee-assignment-klingenschmitt-suspends-his-pray-jesus-name-show">suspension</a> of his daily "Pray In Jesus Name" program, which he announced only a few months ago after his claim that a brutal attack on a pregnant woman in his state was due to the "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-brutal-attack-upon-pregnant-woman-curse-god-upon-america">curse of God upon America</a>" for legal abortion <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/profile-right-wing-persecution-gordon-klingenschmitt-story">sparked controversy</a>, leaving even many of his fellow Republicans outraged.</p>
<p>Now that the controversy has blown over and the legislative session has ended, Klingenschmitt has returned to regularly praying about the news and discerning the spirits on his television program, as he did <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpACCHZZkRs">today</a> when he warned that marijuana legalization leads to people being "devoured by the Devil."</p>
<p>Recounting <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/24/colorado-businessman-blames-stoned-workers-for-relocating-firm-to-south/">a story</a> about a Colorado business owner who supposedly moved his company out of the state after voters legalized pot, Klingenschmitt declared that people who smoke pot are inviting a "demonic spirit of drunkenness" to take control of them.</p>
<p>"When you begin hallucinating, I'm told, and you begin seeing these images," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrN6TkVRZCY">he said</a>, "you're having apparitions and you are seeing and interacting with and welcoming to rule your heart a demonic spirit of drunkenness. That's not recreational. It's evil."</p>
<p>Citing <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+5:8">1 Peter 5:8</a>, which says, "Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour," Klingenschmitt somberly asked, "Do you really want to be devoured by the Devil?"</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right55606Wed, 13 May 2015 13:36:16 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Senator Chaps? Gordon Klingenschmitt, Colorado's Premier Demon-Hunting Legislator, Announces Bid For State Senatehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/senator-chaps-gordon-klingenschmitt-colorados-premier-demon-hunting-legislator-announces-bid
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<p>Just two days ago, Colorado's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-dr-chaps-gordon-klingenschmitt-colorados-new-anti-gay-demon-hunting-state-legislator">demon-hunting gay-exorcising state Rep. Gordon "Dr. Chaps" Klingenschmitt</a> had his seat on House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee <a href="http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-lawmaker-back-on-committee-will-hold-town-hall-wednesday/article/1550084">restored</a> after having been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-being-stripped-committee-assignment-klingenschmitt-suspends-his-pray-jesus-name-show">stripped</a> of it last month amid the controversy stemming from his statement that a brutal attack on a pregnant woman in the state was due to the "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-brutal-attack-upon-pregnant-woman-curse-god-upon-america">curse of God upon America</a>" for legal abortion.</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt eventually <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-apologizes-everything-i-did-about-report-was-wrong">apologized for his remarks</a>, suspended his daily television program, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-plays-victim-while-actual-victim-rejects-his-donation">played the victim</a> by lashing out at the media, and then generally kept his head down in the ensuing weeks in an effort to simply wait out the controversy. And now that it seems to have passed, Klingenschmitt held a town hall meeting last night <a href="http://gazette.com/klingenschmitt-announces-bigger-political-plans-at-colorado-springs-town-hall/article/1550181">to triumphantly announce</a> that he is now running for a seat in the state Senate:</p>
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<p>What was billed as a town hall meeting turned into a half-hour tease for Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt's announcement that he plans to run for a state Senate seat.</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt, R-Colorado Springs, went through a list of his accomplishments in the state Legislature Wednesday at the Airplane Restaurant. He also discussed his attempts to "fight for Republican principles" that didn't make it through the Democrat-controlled House. He took a small handful of questions limited to constituents in House District 15, teasing his "plans for 2016" along the way, before announcing he plans to run for Senate District 12.</p>
<p>The seat is held by Senate President Bill Cadman, who will reach his term limit in 2016.</p>
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Kyle MantylaColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right54346Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:53:34 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Right Wing Bonus Tracks - 4/22/15http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-bonus-tracks-42215
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<ul> <li> Bryan Fischer <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/bryan-fischer/2015/04/22/should-a-christian-
go-to-a-gay-wedding#.VTe8J5P3RDQ">says</a> Christians shouldn't attend a gay wedding, just like they wouldn't attend the
opening of a new crack house.</li> <p> <li> Linda Harvey <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2015/04/21/the-
latest-downward-slide-for-girl-scouts-girl-is-now-optional#.VTehmpP3RDQ">says</a> the Girl Scouts are now advocating "anything
that is anti-Christian, and anything that would dishonor girls."</li> <p> <li> After being <a
href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-being-stripped-committee-assignment-klingenschmitt-suspends-his-pray-jesus-name-
show">stripped</a> of a committee assignment because of controversial comments that he made, Colorado state Rep. Gordon
klingenschmitt has now had his seat <a href="http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-lawmaker-back-on-committee-will-hold-town-hall-
wednesday/article/1550084">restored</a>.</li> <p> <li> Marco Rubio is quietly<a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/us-usa-election-rubio-gaymarriage-idUSKBN0ND0AT20150422"> reaching out</a> to gay
conservatives and Republicans, which is probably not going to help him with anti-gay activists who are <a
href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2015/04/22/rubio-stumbles-on-sexual-orientation-at-what-cost">already leery</a> of
him.</li> <p> <li> Obviously, the true purpose of Common Core is to <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/common-cores-
real-goal-dumbing-down-people/">dumb people down</a>.</li> <p> <li> Finally, The Stream <a
href="https://stream.org/first-come-language-part-one-interview-robert-oscar-lopez/">interviews</a> Robert Oscar Lopez, who
helpfully explains why his new book is entitled "Jepthah&rsquo;s Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Family
'Equality'."</li></ul>Kyle MantylaGordon Klingenschmitt LeftoversLinda Harvey Robert Oscar Lopez54316Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:29:56 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Klingenschmitt: Within A Hundred Years, Twenty Percent Of Americans Will Be Recruited Into Homosexualityhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-within-hundred-years-twenty-percent-americans-will-be-recruited-homosexuality
<p>Earlier this week, Colorado state representative Gordon Klingenschmitt issued a public apology for his recent statement that a brutal attack on a pregnant woman in the state was due to the "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-brutal-attack-upon-pregnant-woman-curse-god-upon-america">curse of God upon America</a>" for legal abortion and announced that he would be suspending his daily "Pray In Jesus Name" television program for the remainder of Colorado's legislative session.</p>
<p>Apparently, this suspension does not begin until next week, since today Klingenschmitt uploaded several new programs to his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/chaplaingate/videos">YouTube channel</a>, including one in which he predicted that a century from now, twenty percent of Americans will be gay due to successful efforts by gay rights activists to "recruit" schoolchildren.</p>
<p>Citing a <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/182051/san-francisco-metro-area-ranks-highest-lgbt-percentage.aspx">recent Gallup poll</a> that unsurprisingly found that places like San Francisco have a larger openly gay population than cities like Birmingham, Alabama, Klingenschmitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRssqFCNSo">stated</a> that this is "proof" that gays recruit children.</p>
<p>Saying that the 2010 census found that less than one percent of the population was gay whereas now it is up to around three percent, Klingenschmitt warned that the gay population is growing, especially in areas of the country "where they don't believe the Bible," through the recruitment of children.</p>
<p>"This proves to me that the Bible works," he said. "That when people believe the Bible, they promote holiness and they invite the Holy Spirit to rule their hearts, they don't have all these homosexual addiction problems that they have in places where they don't believe the Bible and they reject the Bible and they teach the children in California schools that homosexuality is a good thing and they celebrate Harvey Milk Day and they have all kinds of policies to promote that in the classroom. Well, no wonder their population is growing! They're recruiting people into the movement on the left coast."</p>
<p>"The disparity in the population proves to me that it is a recruitment effort for your children," Klingenschmitt continued. "And thank God they're resisting that in Alabama. I wish the rest of America would protect their children as well as they do in Alabama, which is why they have a lower percentage of children recruited, according to the Gallup poll, in the state of Alabama."</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt then went on to warn that children raised in same-sex households are more likely to be gay, which is further proof that children are being recruited, meaning that "in a hundred years, if we continue to allow this recruiting effort across America, all of the children in all of the public schools, if we don't stop this, will be re-educated that this is a good thing."</p>
<p>"And I predict in a hundred years," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YaUKHGpRAQ">he said</a>, "twenty percent of Americans could become homosexual":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAnti-GayColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt C3Fighting the Right53156Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:18:13 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt Profile In Right-Wing Persecution: The Gordon Klingenschmitt Storyhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/profile-right-wing-persecution-gordon-klingenschmitt-story
<p>Long before winning a seat in the Colorado State House, Gordon Klingenschmitt became a right-wing martyr over his claim that he lost his position as a Navy chaplain for saying &ldquo;Jesus&rdquo; in his prayers. Klingenschmitt sued, launching the &ldquo;Save Chaps&rdquo; and &ldquo;Pray In Jesus Name&rdquo; campaigns, and he held up his purported firing as an example of anti-religious, anti-Christian hostility in government.</p>
<p>Klingenschmitt, however, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitts-entire-activist-career-based-myth">lost his lawsuit</a>, as a judge found that there was never an effort to &ldquo;limit Dr. Klingenschmitt&rsquo;s right to engage in any religious practices (including presenting an opening prayer at the event or invoking the name of Jesus in his prayer),&rdquo; noting that he was appropriately disciplined for breaking <a href="http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/ethics_regulation/1344-10.html">well-established military rules</a> which prohibit people from appearing at political events in full military garb.</p>
<p>But like other right-wing activists, Klingenschmitt never let this key detail get in the way of his narrative that he and other conservatives Christians in America are the victims of persecution.</p>
<p>So it is comes as no surprise that Klingesnchmitt is now creating yet another narrative about religious persecution in wake of recent comments he made about the gruesome attack on a pregnant Colorado woman. Klingenschmitt said on his &ldquo;Pray In Jesus Name&rdquo; televangelist program that the attack was the &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-brutal-attack-upon-pregnant-woman-curse-god-upon-america">curse of God upon America</a>&rdquo; for legalizing abortion: &ldquo;part of that curse for our rebellion against God as a nation is that our pregnant women are ripped open.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>His remarks <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-sparks-outrage-after-linking-god-attack-pregnant-woman">quickly incited an uproar</a>, which Klingenschmitt hoped would die down after he made a donation to the woman&rsquo;s recovery fund, regularly boasting about his contribution in media interviews. However, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-plays-victim-while-actual-victim-rejects-his-donation"> the woman&rsquo;s family rejected his donation</a>, and Democrats and Republicans alike condemned Klingenschmitt&rsquo;s statements. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gordon-klingenschmitt-plays-victim-while-actual-victim-rejects-his-donation">refused to apologize</a>, insisting that he was only being criticized for &ldquo;quoting the Bible in church&rdquo; and standing up &ldquo;against evil.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He eventually <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-apologizes-everything-i-did-about-report-was-wrong">offered an apology</a>, but only after insisting that he was <a href="http://gazette.com/klingenschmitt-removed-from-statehouse-committee/article/1548824">the victim of a media campaign</a> to distort his remarks: &ldquo;Klingenschmitt's apology in Monday's video comes after 23 minutes of recapping the tragedy and criticizing media reports about him. He accuses reporters of misquoting him and lying, and says the Gazette retracted its story, which is not true.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Colorado House Republican Leader Brian DelGrosso yesterday decided to <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27816504/klingenschmitt-loses-committee-post-recall-effort-weighed?source=infinite">remove Klingenschmitt</a> from the Health, Insurance and Environment Committee, although he will remain on another committee dealing with local government as a &ldquo;kind of disciplinary action.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The move inspired Klingenschmitt to fall back on his earlier claim that he is facing persecution for <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27816504/klingenschmitt-loses-committee-post-recall-effort-weighed?source=infinite">just quoting the Bible</a>: &ldquo;I am literally being punished for quoting unpopular Bible verses in my Sunday church, or interpreting the Old Testament differently than Leader DelGrosso interprets it, during my private ministry outside the Capitol. Is that suddenly a crime?&rdquo;</p>
<p>House Republican leaders weren&rsquo;t the only ones to incite the wrath of Klingenschmitt, as he also accused Right Wing Watch of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lesson-dr-chaps-how-internet-works">persecuting him</a> by quoting excerpts from his television program verbatim, as part of his long career of portraying himself as a perpetual victim of discriminatory practices that only exist in his own mind.</p>
Brian TashmanC4ColoradoGordon Klingenschmitt Fighting the Right52971Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:45:12 -0400Gordon Klingenschmitt